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SMILE AND FIGHT Improv star Parker stares down cancer — SEE LIFELIFE,, BB11 PortlandTHURSDAY, JUNE 19, 2014 • TWICE CHOSEN THE NATION’S BESTT NNONDAILYONDAILY PAPERTribune • PORTLANDTRIBUNE.COMPORTLANDTRIBUNE.COM • PUBLISHEDPUBLISHED TUESDAYTUESD AND THURSDAY O, Death City takes swing at spare reviving golf game me till Offi cials look to Colwood acquisition to get sport out of hole we talk By J ENNIFER ANDERSON The Tribune Three months after the city’s aquisition of the Colwood National Golf Club about it in Northeast Portland, the city is looking “The game to use it to at- needs a ■ tract a young- Death Cafes er, more di- boost. verse popula- We need tion of golfers tackle the taboo topic to save the fu- a way to ture of the bring other game. people — to help folks make “Most golf- ers are like me more — the majority gender most of their lives of us are gray- haired and diversity, amie always thought she’d like to be male,” says more buried under an oak tree in her rural John Zoller, di- cultural Clackamas County backyard. Nearing rector of the Jdeath after a long bout with cancer Portland Pub- diversity, last fall, she had Eric, her partner, contact lic Golf pro- especially Elizabeth Fournier, who specializes in do-it- gram for more yourself funerals through Cornerstone than 25 years. the young Funeral Services. “The game kids.” Fournier came out for a visit. She told the needs a boost. — J ohn Z oller, couple that over the coming weeks they would We need a way Portland Public talk about what type of to bring other Golf program funeral Jamie wanted, people — more director STORY BY and that there were gender diversi- questions and details ty, more cul- PETER KORN almost nobody consid- tural diversity, ers ahead of time.
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